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Got a winter coat? Check. Got it in the car? Check, as it might be in the ditch. Got beer? Check, it might be frozen. So you might be hosed, but tap into the lines in the rest of this post if you were one of the few brave ones venturing out to the bars and taverns in the last 72 hours, or to see what you missed … (And see added content on Green Bay doing in Dallas, frozen tundra aside.)

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Winter is finally in almost-mid-January here — in what already is a 72-hour (now 96 and still counting) wind-and-snow-shot — […]

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The stickers stick quickly to the point, and those stinkers hope to make you snicker, as we see more and more of them posted here and there. Often they throw counter-culture into the current culture, or consist of a throwback to a thing (omnipresent?) like Where’s Waldo. See them on the back of stop signs or edge of light poles near you. (And in recent adds to this post, seen below, did it begin with the DOT? Or the HHAA launch party?) —– And those who messaged with a wish to subscribe … see this post’s end.

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Methinks this may be the new torrid tagging. Hey, grafitti can actually be a bit of a good gig, and

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Where, says we, be those (wily) wondrous ones? See The End, Jim. Still, this was the New Year’s Eve That Was. (An Old editor milked that very phrase until it got Old, like a passing Year when the promise comes of The New.) But this was just a bit different. So we’re a Victim of Changes, as since post-pandemic it’s been the newbies, with their own knack, out and not so much the old guard, but for a few. I’ll take the (bit naked?) nuances of the new in chronological order. —- And now just added at the end from The Day, I will throw it on back to you.

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Here we go, blow by blow. How do the new meet the older old? As I left the Buena Vista

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From big ribeye to risotto, and that’s just for starters on this New Year’s Eve that also includes music, you can do it all on Sunday night into Monday morning. Grill and fill, or chill, because you still will not have to worry about the bill you put in the till. (As you can get dinner for two and a bottle of wine plus dessert for $70 — see below — if you go to the right place, and here’s a primer of picks.) Now tacked on the end, is a preview, a lowkey Saturday the night before.

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This New Year’s Eve is a meeting of the minds and music and munching, and other mirth, that is in

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This is a tale that must be told, and I hold dear, and I can still tell it! (As there are, officially, 12 Days of Christmas.) What was put up for people to see, and be seen? As such, here is what I saw in decorations on both ends of the state of Wisconsin. From Santas to sleighs and bells, snowmen to strings of lights, sleds to Christmas stockings. No snow, but there are other visual ways to go, to do the holidays!

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From the seat I sit on and compose, on Tuesday morning, I can still see four foot-wide white figures of

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Why, pray-tell, did it take those Three Wise Men so long to get to Bethlehem? (I swear if it was me, it would be more like 3,000 years on the road, and with smelly camels — see below — it’s no fun!) I’d maybe pull in by this spring. And that’s if I didn’t part the Red Sea and buy some time, bridges out, camel-lane closures. All but for that classic World Music Tour title, Death On The Road! Perhaps those days, you’d have used up one-tenth of your lifespan when coming close to Persia. Persistence of those countries to cross.

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And you thought traveling for Christmas across counties, countries or even continents, could be disconcerting. What if it’s all or

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Santa has Them Bones too, or so in grunge, says Alice, and thus lifts her Chains like the old ghost seen by Scrooge. Lit up, to again lift up, using their very pale whiteness aside, like a Christmas tree. Merging holidays — sorry to Scrooge — occurring in past, present and future times. But for now, and to forego any more word-like Reindeer-Like Games, its Father Christmas! (And at the end is new info, seasonally sanctioned song stuff.)

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There still are and were several Santas seen, some on the more secularly sinister and not sacred side. Seriously. But

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